One Of The Toughest Battles In Intelligence

One Of The Big Changes In The Congress Since I First Came To Washington Is That All Of These Folks Go Home Every Weekend. They Used To Play Golf Together; Their Families Got To Know Each Other, Go To Dinner At Each Other's Homes At Weekends - And These Would Be People Who Were Political Adversaries.

I Think That Vladimir Putin Has Decided, In A Very Strategic Way, To Turn The Tables And Do Everything In His Power To, As We've Described Russian Elections As Illegitimate, To Try And Communicate To The Rest Of The World That Western Elections Are Illegitimate. And It's Not Just Us, We Know That Now. It's Germany, It's France, It's A Number Of Other Countries.

I Had No Difficulty As Secretary Of Defense Moving From The Bush Administration To The Obama Administration.

The Reality Is, The United States Has Global Interests. Our Defense Budget Is About The Same As The Defense Budgets Or Military Budgets Of Every Other Country In The World Put Together.

Well, I've Ruffled A Few Feathers At All The Institutions I've Led. But I Think That's Part Of Leadership.